The shrimp genome is large, with high repetitive content and a very complex genome for sequencing. A high quality draft whole genome assembly of Indian white shrimp Penaeus indicus has been obtained in the present study using PacBio-Sequel platform. The shrimp genome size which was estimated to be 2.47 ± 0.04 pg by flow cytometry analysis, could be successfully assembled using canu assembler. Proportion of 95.54 % of shrimp genome could be assembled which generated 83892 no. of contigs, 2368024291 bp total assembled length, and 54266 bp N50, with largest contig of 1278629 bp with 34.84% GC content. BUSCO analysis showed high level of genome assembly completeness with some fragmentation. This high quality assembled genome of P. indicus reveals basic genomic composition and will be useful as a reference genome for comparative genomics of other penaeid shrimp species and genetic improvement programmes of P. indicus.